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NASA planes fly over Taiwan in air-quality testing
Taipei Times - Two NASA aircraft yesterday flew over Taiwan to collect air quality samples as part of a joint study with countries across the Asia-Pacific region, the Ministry of Environment said.
The four-hour mission would generate a 3D map of air pollution in central and southern Taiwan, the ministry wrote in a news release published hours before the survey.
Open-source flight trackers show that the NASA DC-8 and Gulfstream III took off from the Philippines and circled cities in Taiwan before landing in South Korea
